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TIL that the youngest person to summit Mount Everest was just 13 years old while the oldest person to summit was 80 years old.

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R5d8w TIL Mozart composed a song called "Lick Me In The A**" - and by extension, we're much more prudish now about bodily humour than we were in the past.
M7ejV TIL that black bears are thriving in New Jersey and have been seen in all 21 of the states counties.
yVYl8 TIL the Whitworth rifle, used during the Civil War, is considered the first "sniper rifle", accurate at distances up to 1800m (2000 yd) when equipped with a 4x scope
aP90 TIL Carrie Fisher was addicted to cocaine AND survived an overdose during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back.
NxwJ TIL During the middle ages, thousands of black cats were killed due to superstition, with the unintended consequence of increasing the rat population. It was one of the main reasons the Plague killed millions.